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Not everyone is at home: the godson of the head of the Khimprom drug cartel turned out to be the owner of Villa Sharia in Spain
Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy sold his villa in Spain, probably to a relative of the head of the Khimprom drug cartel, Izvestia found out. At the same time, Shariy had previously filmed revealing videos about this criminal community and publicly accused its members of attempting to kill themselves. But now the owner of the blogger's former home is Ukrainian Andrei Lyashok, the godson of the leader of Khimprom, Egor Burkin, it follows from the documents that were at the disposal of Izvestia. The Spanish authorities suspect that the deal was a money laundering scheme and have already seized the villa, as well as Sharia's apartment on the Costa Dorada. The Spanish police are investigating a criminal case of money laundering against the blogger himself. Shariy himself considers it a consequence of pressure from the Ukrainian authorities for his criticism of Zelensky. The details are in the Izvestia investigation.
Arrests of Sharia assets
Spanish courts have seized the apartment of Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Sharia and the villa he recently sold. This follows from the materials of the criminal case initiated by Spanish law enforcement agencies against Sharia on suspicion of tax evasion, money laundering and concealment of assets (Izvestia has reviewed the documents).
The interim measures against the apartment were taken on June 17 by order of the El Vendrel court. It is located in the Mariner residential complex in Segur de Calafel (a resort area within the city of Calafel on the Costa Dorada) and costs about 400 thousand euros.
This house contains an apartment of Anatoly Shariy.
"The arrest was imposed in case No. 243/2024-1, which is under preliminary investigation. The apartment remains with the owner, but he will not be able to sell, donate or mortgage it," the source told Izvestia.
A villa with an area of 265 square meters was also under arrest. m in Roda de Bara in the province of Tarragona, worth about € 2 million, which used to belong to Shariy. As the blogger himself said in one of the videos on YouTube, after a series of attempts, he began to look for a buyer for the house, including among acquaintances. The investigation, as previously reported by the newspaper elDiario, regarded the sale of the villa as part of an operation to conceal assets in Spain.
The former Sharia villa purchased by Ukrainian citizen Andriy Lyashok
At the end of October 2023, unknown people threw several Molotov cocktails at the blogger's house in the province of Tarragona, and in March 2024, Shariy told about an attempt to fire at his car from a machine gun with a silencer.
He himself linked the attacks to a series of revealing videos about the international drug cartel Khimprom, which not only established the sale of banned substances in the EU, but also created a network of fraudulent call centers throughout Ukraine.
Law enforcement officers in Russia and Ukraine call the leader of the group Yegor Burkina, a native of Sterlitamak (known in Ukraine as Levchenko). According to media reports, he is hiding in Mexico, which is why he received the nickname "The Mexican."
Neither the Spanish press nor Shariy himself mentioned the name of the buyer of the house. However, Izvestia managed to find out that in October 2024, a citizen of Ukraine, a certain Andrey Lyashok, purchased the villa. A year later, in October 2025, the Investigative Court No. 4 of Alicante, as part of criminal proceedings, seized the house and forbade Lyashka to dispose of it. Formally, interim measures have been taken in the case against the current owner, but it is not known what the essence of the claims against him is and whether they are directly related to Sharia.
The godson of the "Mexican"
In the materials reviewed by Izvestia, the date of birth of the buyer of Villa Sharia, Andrei Lyashka, is not indicated. Izvestia correspondents counted at least forty people with this combination of first and last names from different regions of Ukraine in the Ukrainian registers.
An online broadcast from the hall of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine on July 3 helped to identify the buyer. They chose a measure of restraint for Rada deputy Nikolai Tishchenko. According to the prosecution, in the summer of 2023, through an intermediary, he extorted from Egor Burkina, the internationally wanted head of the Khimprom drug cartel, a bribe of $ 1 million and regular payments for non—interference in the work of fraudulent call centers controlled by him.
As follows from the materials that the prosecutor read out, the mediator in the negotiations between the MP and Burkin was a certain Lyashok Andrey Sergeevich, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, the godson of the head of Khimprom. According to the prosecutor, it was through him that Burkin transferred cash to Tishchenko "for charity" back in 2022 — from $20 to $100 thousand at a time.
In the Ukrainian case, Lyashok is a witness. He recorded conversations with the deputy on his phone, which he then voluntarily handed over to the investigation. He was interrogated remotely, as, according to the prosecutor, the witness is now in Spain, where criminal proceedings on money laundering have been opened against him.
The name, patronymic and details of the biography of the witness in the Tishchenko case coincide with the data of the buyer of Villa Sharia. The Spanish money laundering case against Lyashka also explains why the court arrested Villa.
There were only a few people with the full name Andrei Sergeyevich Lyashok in Ukraine. One of them is a resident of Kiev, born in 1993, who served as a patrol policeman in Kiev in 2019. His declaration of that period leaves no doubt about the modesty of the situation: the only asset is an apartment with an area of 42 square meters, an annual income of no more than 100 thousand hryvnias, that is, about 3.5 thousand euros.
Through Ukrainian registries, Izvestia managed to find the phone number of the former patrolman, as well as his accounts on social networks and messengers. An analysis of open groups has shown that Lyashok and the woman who can be considered his wife belong to communities dedicated to Spain and Mexico. It is in Mexico that Burkin is believed to be hiding.
The totality of these data allows us to state with a high degree of confidence: the buyer of Villa Sharia is the same former patrolman with unclear sources of income, whom the Ukrainian prosecutor's office calls the godson of the head of Khimprom and who is under investigation in Spain on suspicion of money laundering.
Khimprom is a transnational criminal group. Its founder is Egor Burkin, born in 1989, a native of Sterlitamak in Bashkiria.
Initially, the group specialized in the distribution of synthetic substances (in particular, mephedrone), later switched to the production of heavier drugs. In 2014, Burkin received a Ukrainian passport in the name of Egor Levchenko and underwent most of the surgery in Ukraine.
In February 2017, the Russian Interior Ministry reported on the suppression of the activities of a drug syndicate with an annual turnover of more than two billion rubles; at that time, about 70 people were detained, most of them citizens of Ukraine.
Subsequently, Khimprom, according to Russian law enforcement agencies, switched to creating fraudulent call centers. They have worked in several countries. The attackers called people, offered to invest in cryptocurrency, and after receiving the money, they stole the funds.
In the spring of 2026, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested Burkina and his closest accomplices in absentia. According to media reports, he is hiding in Mexico.
Did Shari launder money
However, the version of the Spanish investigation that the sale of the villa was part of an operation to conceal assets raises questions among the experts interviewed by Izvestia. They believe that Sharia was most likely advised to get rid of the house urgently before it was confiscated — it would simply be pointless to launder money through such a deal.
— If the buyer of the villa did not have his own real funds for this, but had, relatively speaking, black cash, then such a laundering transaction would have put him at risk. Shari only had to pay taxes on the sale, and that was it. But the buyer of the villa would already have questions: where did you get €2 million, how did you bring them into the country? That is, such a deal would only attract excessive attention of the tax authorities to the villa, and would not hide the money," Dmitry Krasnov, an honored lawyer of Russia, explained to Izvestia.
According to him, for the blogger himself, such a move, on the contrary, could be beneficial as a way to quickly "make money" in a situation where the house could be taken away at any moment.
— For example, it was necessary to transfer the villa to someone because he wanted to save this house from confiscation. They probably advised Sharia: come on, quickly, sell to the conditional Vasya. He sells and makes money, and questions about the legitimacy of the purchase are already the problems of the new owner. Whether the house of power is taken away from him or not, Shariy doesn't care anymore," Krasnov added.
What do the Spanish authorities suspect Sharia of?
The investigation into the criminal case of tax crimes against Anatoly Sharia and his wife Olga Bondarenko, Ukrainian bloggers known for their harsh criticism of the Zelensky government, was reported by the newspaper in late September. elDiario.es .
Anatoly Shari
According to the newspaper, the case file includes a report from the Civil Guard dated June 12, 2025, which refers to "actions that have signs of crimes against the state treasury, money laundering and forgery of documents." Later, according to the newspaper, suspicion of concealing property from foreclosure was added to them. The investigation found that Shariy had sold the very house in Tarragona, his main asset in Spain. According to the Civil Guard, the proceeds were entirely spent on the purchase of jewelry and precious metals, which are "easy to hide."
Investigators believe that the transfer of real estate into jewelry occurred after Shariy learned about the investigation of tax crimes, and thus he sought to "evade possible financial responsibility, making it difficult to detect and recover assets."
In turn, Shariy, who has repeatedly criticized Zelensky and the Office of the President of Ukraine, rejects suspicions of money laundering and explains the origin of income by monetization of YouTube and donations from subscribers. He attributes the case to pressure from Kiev. In conversation with elDiario.es The blogger said that the case against him was "artificially" created in Ukraine by the State Bureau of Investigation, which, according to him, is subordinate to the Office of the President.
Izvestia sent Anatoly Shariy a request to clarify the facts stated in this text.
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